Door Alarms | Cove Security
The last thing you want to hear when you’re snuggled up in bed is the sound of your doorknob rattling. But doors are the most common entry points intruders will use. Stop them before they get inside with our compact and reliable door sensor.
Greater peace of mind starts now.
Cove’s door sensors monitor your home’s points of entry, letting you know immediately when a door is opened while your system is armed.
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The flexibility you need.
You decide what you want from your door sensor. This sensor will work with any door. You can set specific names and rules for each sensor, so you know exactly where things are happening.
Always alert so you don’t have to be.
Once an hour, your door sensor will test itself to ensure everything is working correctly. And with extra-long battery life, you can practically forget about your sensors for years.
Install it where you want it.
Installation takes seconds since your sensors are pre-programmed for compatibility with our Touch Screen Panel. Just follow the instructions on your guide and use the adhesive backing to place your sensors where you want them.
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Choose from a range of monitoring plans to find what works best for your home (and your budget). All of our plans include 24/7 professional monitoring.
All the right features.
Remote Accessibility
Monitor the status of your door sensors from a distance and check in through the Cove mobile app to ensure that your home stays secure, even when you can’t be there.
Smart Integration
Integrate door sensors and other Cove security devices into your smart home automation, making your home more convenient and more secure.
Customizable Alert Options
Tailor your alerts and notifications so that the information you receive is the most relevant and actionable for your particular needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A door alarm (also called a door sensor) is an essential part of a home security system to keep your home safe. A door sensor keeps track of whether a door is open or closed. These alarms alert you audibly and/or with a text notification when a door has been opened (depending on your settings). With a door alarm, you can know that your home is secure and that no one is coming or going without your knowledge. The same technology used for door sensors can also be used on windows. This technology is simple, reliable, and affordable, making it ideal for DIY home security systems.
The sensor itself is a two-piece device. One part of the wireless door alarm is attached to the edge of the door, and the other part is attached to the door frame. Both parts are mounted with an adhesive strip. The two pieces are parallel with one another, almost touching. When the door is opened, it breaks the invisible connection between the two parts of the sensor, tripping the alarm.
To elaborate, one part of the sensor has a magnet inside, and the other part contains a magnetically sensitive trigger called a “reed switch.” The reed switch houses two magnetic wires that are prevented from completing a circuit when its sister piece is next to it. When the part of the door sensor that contains the magnet moves away from the other half of the sensor, the two wires of the reed switch are able to touch, which triggers a signal to your Cove Touch Alarm Panel.
We recommend wireless door sensors because of their simplicity, reliability, and customization. Cove uses wireless sensors because their wired counterparts are quickly becoming outdated. The hassle involved in installing wired alarm systems usually requires many hours of setup time by a trained professional. This can be an expensive nuisance. Additionally, wired systems are often more conspicuous and susceptible to failures or tampering.
Security systems for doors are essential to the safety of your home.
We recommend sensors be installed in every possible access point to your home. You’ll want them installed on all doors and windows so that there is no way a thief, burglar, or home invader can enter your home without triggering an alarm. Door alarms and window sensors are essential to a complete home safety system. Sensors on any possible entry points keep you and your security monitoring service in the know about any potential threats so that you’ll be protected.
To begin deciding on how many door alarms you need, assess the layout of your home. Get to know how your windows open and how your doors lock and what they look like from outside the house. Case your own home like a potential burglar would, and you’ll know where and how many magnetic door alarms or window sensors you’ll need.
Once you know how many wireless door and window contact sensors you’ll need, you’ll want to find a security company that offers the best door alarm sensors as part of a comprehensive monitored package.
To get the best results and the least amount of headache, you’ll want your hardware to come from the same security company. Cove will provide you with both affordable security equipment and unbeatable alarm monitoring. If there ever happens to be a security threat at your residence, Cove will be alerted, able to verify the threat and contact emergency services on your behalf if the situation requires it. We’re committed to providing effective security without breaking your bank.
This depends on the type of door sensor you are using. Although wireless door alarms (like those made by Cove) are very easy to set up, don’t let their simplicity fool you into thinking they’re easy to bypass. Because they’re so small and don’t require direct contact, the two halves are almost always out of view from the outside of the door.
This means shady characters won’t be able to know where the sensor is located. Even if an intruder did know where your sensor was, it isn’t possible to disable them from the outside.
The door only needs to move about an inch to trip the alarm, and tampering with the sensor will set off the alarm.
As we mentioned above, magnetic door alarms can’t be seen from the outside of a door and are more reliable. Furthermore, buttons wear down after a while, and if they aren’t installed properly, they can even break with a forceful slamming of a door or window. This is why we recommend magnetic sensors.
And as stated earlier, even wired entry door sensors (without a button) can be hacked or tampered with by a particularly skilled burglar, and if the power gets shut off, they are easily bypassed. Since magnetic door alarms don’t have any moving parts or external power sources, you can avoid this risk of premature hardware failure, unlike their cohorts with buttons or wires.
See our Complete Sensor Signal Test instructions here.
why should you install them in your home?
You might not have heard of door alarms – or, you might think of them as a very basic home security product.
Door alarms can be very effective home security devices, alerting you if someone opens, or tries to open, the doors in your home. What you might not know is that home burglars often come in through the front door – the most obvious entry point into the home. So, door alarms are a vital part of an effective home security set-up.
Door alarms as part of your home security system
Door alarms are a very subtle home security product. Usually, door alarms are small, wireless boxes you can attach close to the doors in your home using magnetic strips.
You might want to position just one main door alarm close to the front door of your home. Or, you might want to attach door alarms to all the doors in your home (garage doors, side and back doors, glass garden doors, cellar doors, safe doors, and so on).
If someone tries to open any of the alarmed doors in your home, the sensitive motion detectors on the alarms will trigger a security alarm.
Window alarms work in a similar way, using sensors to alert you if someone tries to open a window in your home.
Window alarms can be very useful on ground floor windows around your home, as these are more vulnerable to break-ins.
In terms of home security systems, door and window alarms are an efficient home security product that don’t come at too high a price.
Plus, wireless door and window alarms might well have a reduced installation price. As wireless security systems are much simpler to install in your home, you might even be able to set them up yourself.
Wireless door and window alarms are a very flexible home security product.
Depending on your preferences, you can easily move the door and window sensors to different points in your home, especially if the sensors are only attached with magnetic strips.
If your door and window alarms are in good view around your home, they’ll likely act as an effective deterrent for potential intruders. But, make sure your smart home security products are securely installed, so they can’t easily be removed or damaged by potential thieves.
How do smart door and window alarms work to increase your home security?
As we’ve seen, these subtle door and window alarms contain motion sensors. These motion detectors trigger security alarms, putting of intruders from trying to enter the home.
Smart door and window alarms are very sensitive: their motion detection technology can alert you to even small vibrations, as they indicate that someone is trying to break into your home.
In these cases, your home security alarm would be triggered before the intruder even gets your home’s door or window open.
Smart, wireless door and window alarms can be connected to the WiFi in your home. These security sensors can reliably alert you to any unusual activity in and around your home.
Download the corresponding app to your smart devices, and you’ll be able to remotely control your home security system from wherever you are, whenever you want.
If your door alarms are triggered, the app will alert you to that fact via an instant notification.
You can choose to remotely trigger your door or window alarms, or choose to turn off the alarms if there’s no need for them to be on.
Plus, if you’ve fitted a smart security sensor, you can check the open or closed status of the doors and windows around your property.
Door alarms: an accessible smart home security product
Whether you integrate your door and window alarms into a full home security system or not, they’re a great asset.
Research the best options for your home before installing your window and door alarms.
Let’s take another look at the main points you’ll want to consider:
- Is a wired or a wireless security alarm system best for your home? Remember, wireless alarms systems can often be installed for a much lower price, as well as being a very flexible home security option.
- Where’s best to position your door and window sensors? Which are the most vulnerable doors and windows around your home?
- Are the door and window sensors smart? You might want to opt for smart security products, so you can get alerts to your smart devices and control your home security remotely.
- Will your door and window alarms be in strong range of your home WiFi? The sensors and alarm system might depend on a strong Internet connection to properly alert you to attempted entries into your home.
- Will your door and window sensors be sensitive enough to alert you to attempted door and window openings?
- Magnetic installation or screw installation? Which will work better for the doors and windows in your home?
- Why not combine smart door and window sensors as part of a wider smart home security system? But, if you’re watching the price of your home security set-up, door and window alarms are a great product to start with.
If you’re installing door and window alarms, make sure the people living in your home all know how they work – and how to turn off the alarms!
It’s important to make sure your door and window alarms don’t go off unnecessarily, as they might turn into a public nuisance.
Smart door and window sensors are advanced enough to accurately alert you to suspicious activity in and around your home.
However, you’ll need to make sure your smart sensors are installed properly. If you’re considering a DIY installation of your smart home security system, make sure the sensors’ detection levels are correctly set up.
If you’re considering installing smart door and window alarms in your home, why not add them into a comprehensive smart home security system? The Netatmo Smart Door and Window Opening Sensors connect to our Smart Indoor and Outdoor Cameras and Smart Indoor Alarms. Use your home’s WiFi network to create an integrated smart home security system that you can control remotely.
Window-door GSM-alarm system / Sudo Null IT News
All that is valuable must be protected! Nobody will argue with this statement. One of the most popular ways of protection is GSM alarm system.
I would like to tell you about my small but quite positive experience of using the mini-alarm system pole-GSM.
I had an idea to install an alarm system for a long time.
And as a lover of various DIY projects, I was thinking about arduino with a gsm shield. But! And this turned out to be for me personally a decisive argument in favor of a ready-made solution – this is food!
GSM alarm from dadget is powered by one small battery and according to the documentation it lasts exactly one year. (How to sit down – I will add how much is really enough). And for home-made options, it will be necessary to conjure something with power and there are doubts that the battery or rechargeable version will last for a year.
Reviews often overemphasize packaging. I will briefly say that it is very shockproof and will definitely withstand any adventure in the mail.
In a box, except for the alarm itself, which consists of a main unit mounted on the doorway and a unit with a magnet attached to the door (or window). There is also a small one – a magnet – a keychain. About him later. Instructions, a small piece of paper with explanations of the instructions and a SIM card.
I didn’t figure out the SIM card and just issued a SIM card for alarms in Beeline. By the way, judging by the reaction of the sellers in the cabin, people often buy SIM cards specifically for signaling to the country.
There are very small marks (triangles) on the main alarm unit and on the magnet unit. They should be directed labels to each other. When I attached the magnet to the door, I mixed up the labels and got an unstable response. Pay attention to the label and everything will be ok.
The battery takes up almost half of the device. To prevent the battery from sinking during transportation, it is “supported” by a transparent plastic plate. Don’t throw it away! Useful during setup. And when you finish tuning – just put the plate in the case – it will come in handy.
A few words about the external sensor. He is and it’s good. It will be possible to connect to replace the old alarm if the sensors are already installed.
I did not experiment with this possibility, but for its presence, the creators of the device have a plus in karma.
The setup is not the easiest, but it does not cause any difficulties. You can use both the web site and the phone app to set it up.
You can go to the configurator’s website right now and see what and how you can configure.
You can also install an application on your phone, the functionality of which will completely repeat what can be configured through the site.
The alarm manufacturer made a very visual video.
Before setting up, I recommend to look at it.
The main communication with the alarm takes place via SMS. For any of your actions, the alarm sends SMS (can be disabled). When triggered, it can choose to either send SMS or call. From the interesting – in SMS messages, the alarm adds the signal level.
This is a very cool feature, especially when installing alarms in basements where cellular coverage can be problematic.
Just in case, I will attach a couple of links to detailed documentation.
→ From the manufacturer.
→ From Dajet.
I’ve been using the alarm quite recently, and (I knock on wood hard) all the responses were test ones. And I really hope they stay that way.
Pros :
Very neatly done. Compact. Works for a long time (a year from one battery).
Minus :
A magnetic key fob is used for arming. I would be more comfortable with a button on the alarm unit itself.
Naturally, I read the reviews about the alarm system on the dajet website. And one smiled at me:
Potential buyers
With a 10% discount Window and door alarms can be purchased using the promo code GT-AL.
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